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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Composition and Performance in the Work of Bob Cobbing: a conversation / Cobbing, Bob ; Mottram, Eric ; Greenham L ; Houedard DS ; Chopin H ; Dufrene F ; Heissenbuttel H ; Berio L ; Stockhausen K., 2000

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Identifier: CC-44991-47167
Scope and Contents This text of this book that was first published in Kontextsound in 1977 consists of an interview of Cobbing by Mottram. Cobbing discusses how he switched from composing conventional poems to sound poems circa 1963. He also makes mention of music as it relates to sound poems and his belief that avant garde musicians appropriated material from poets not vice-versa. Bob Cobbing died at age 82 years in 2002. Robert Shepard wrote the obituary in The Guardian October 7, 2002. "Bob Cobbing, who has died aged 82, was the major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry in Britain. Long after its international heyday in the 1960s, he continued to produce visual texts that were also scores for performance, many of them published as booklets by his Writers' Forum press, and launched at its associated workshop, which has been meeting in private houses and rooms above pubs since 1954. His work appears in many anthologies. Born in Enfield, Cobbing was brought up within that close religious...
Dates: 2000

Concrete Sound Poetry: Record Notes / Cobbing, Bob; Chopin H; Dufrene F; Heidsieck B; Johnson BE; Hanson S; Cobbing B; Novak L; Jandl E., 1970

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Identifier: CC-17667-18035
Scope and Contents

The text consists of notes for the record of the same title; the record is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Les Portes Ouvertes Ouvertement, 2001

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Identifier: CC-40232-42203
Scope and Contents

This book deals with Chopin's diary notes on the making of his sound poems. He mentions meeting the Sackners on his visit to Miami Beach in 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

OU - Cinqueme Saison / Chopin, Henri ; Amirkhanian C ; Chopin H ; Davies H ; Gysin B ; Heidsieck B ; Novak L ; Bekaert J ; Cobbing B ; DeVree P ; Hanson S ; Hodell A ; Rotella M ; Burroughs WS ; deSilva JA ; Dufrene F ; Hausmann R ; Johnson BE ; Wolman G ; Albert-Birot P ; Agam Y ; Bertini G ; Cage J ; Furnival J ; Lora-Totino A ; Lockwood A ; Orton R ; Phillips T ; Seuphor M ; Themerson S ; Ben ; DeVree P., 2002

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Identifier: CC-43155-45211
Scope and Contents

The project was coordinated by Nicolas Zurbrugg, and edited and produced by Emanuele Carcano. It includes all the sound poems on CD's that were originally recorded in OU on 45 rpm records plus five additional recordings that were done later in other publications. The two pamphlets are duplicates. The soft cover book includes Chopin's comments about each issue, Chopin's autobiography, and statements from other artists/poets about his sound poems. Tom Phillips' work is the score of the opera "Irma." One of the compact discs includes recordings of his phonetic poems, "Kansas City Numero Collage." The drawing for this poem is held by the Sackner Archive. It is stored on a shelf near Revue Ou. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002